Sport academy not protecting young: report

Queensland Academy of Sport still does not have child protection policies in place more than a decade after its head coach Scott Volkers was embroiled in a child sex abuse scandal.

In a scathing report, the child sex abuse royal commission has condemned the academy and Swimming Queensland which reinstated Volkers as coach even though they knew it was inappropriate he work with children.

The commission has identified systemic failings in the academy as well as in the Queensland and NSW DPP offices in their handling of allegations against the famous and popular mentor.

His proteges included swim stars Samantha Riley and Susie O'Neill.

The report by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse was released on Monday after a public investigation last year into how abuse allegations against swimming coaches, most notably Volkers, were handled.

Volkers was charged in March 2002 with several counts of indecent treatment of a girl under 16.

Charges were controversially dropped. Further allegations continued to emerge.

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During his time with the swimming academy he was regularly seconded to Swimming Australia to attend international swimming meets.

The commission criticised Swimming Australia for not making any inquiries into the dropped charges.

The commission found that Volkers continued to work at the academy until 2010, even though he had failed a working with children screening by the Queensland Commission for Children and Young People.

"Despite the issuing of a negative notice, the academy continued to employ Mr Volkers until February 2010, when he was appointed Swimming Queensland Head Coach."

"We are satisfied that, during the period of Mr Volkers' employment, the academy did not have and still does not have a child protection policy that deals with sexual abuse of an athlete sponsored by the academy," the report says.